Payload
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Starting price:
$35.00 per month
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Most Helpful Reviews for Payload
1 - 5 of 40 Reviews
Alessio
Verified reviewer
Information Technology and Services, 1 employee
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed May 2023
Best Headless CMS
I've tried MANY headless CMS options, and Payload has been the best so far
PROSI'm able to customize every single aspect of this CMS. Support is amazing
CONSLimited support for alternative databases, although more will be added in the next releases.
Reason for choosing Payload
Payload is more customizable and easier to use. Both the User-Experience, as well as the Developer Experience, beat everything I've used so far.
Reasons for switching to Payload
Other CMS's did not support everything I wanted to do. I felt very limited in what I could do.
Jacob
Verified reviewer
Marketing and Advertising, 51-200 employees
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed May 2023
No more WordPress
Very quick adoption. A couple small snags here and there. Generally very pleased.
PROSIt provides the most useful aspects of WordPress out of the box and does away with many of the aspects that holds WordPress back.
CONSWhile it has been around for a couple of years, it still has plenty of ways to improve. As a result, there is definitely more time necessary to investigate what is possible to do with it. However, the codebase is purposefully left as non-abstracted as possible which makes understanding it that much easier.
Reason for choosing Payload
Open source, not a paid SAAS that forces me to pin to a service dependency that limits us. Code-oriented definition of data structures. Replacements for Gravity Forms and ACF. A plugin that doesn't cost hundreds of dollars to store assets on a CDN.
Reasons for switching to Payload
PHP is expensive when upgrades need to happen. Node.js has no such problem thanks to NVM. WordPress is difficult to work with in a modern way due to its old code practices. Payload CMS is very open and easy to extend and modify while covering for most normal use-cases.
Sanna
Verified reviewer
E-Learning, 2-10 employees
Used weekly for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
3
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
3
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed May 2023
Highly customisable CMS with a great i18n model
Payload's i18n model is incredible for large scale projects, and managing complexity. Additionally the admin panel is highly customisable and can be tailored to any kind of business.
CONSThere is no way to generate admin thumbnails for files other than images. Mangling of node.js environment and browser environment pose a bit of an issue, but manageable.
Reason for choosing Payload
Ease of use and it's self hostable.
Reasons for switching to Payload
Strapi's i18n model is not up to par for projects relying on data integrity (each translation has a unique id, despite the document in theory being the same).
Jennifer
Computer Software, 1 employee
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed May 2023
The Headless CMS every Dev has been waiting for
Overall it will be my go-to backend for any kind of software.
PROSPayload CMS was a total gamechanger for my development experience. I have been researching a Headless CMS that is easy to customize and extend for over a year until I stumbled upon Payload. From the get go the documentation was very extensive, getting a hang on it was very easy and now the process of creating a CMS that is fit to the customers need is done in a fracture of the time. Easy WordPress replacement. Also the response times within the Community are very fast if you have questions and the founders are always there for a chat and take recommondations thoughtfully
CONSWhile extension of the UI is possible, a layout builder with Drag and Drop features (eg. as a Plugin) would be great.
Reason for choosing Payload
Its easy to setup and features are easily integrated - nothing new to learn
Reasons for switching to Payload
Too much maintanance with 3rd Party Dependencies and Security Issues
Anonymous
11-50 employees
Used weekly for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed May 2023
The CMS that everyone was waiting for!
Overall, the cms is great and easy to use for website backends, but also as apis or internal tooling.
PROSPayload is the most user friendly and developer oriented cms I’ve used so far. Its customisability and ease of use while keeping the express app fully accessible works great for us. Also the localisation is a lot better, since it works perfect in combination with generating routes necessary for NextJS dynamic routes.
CONSHonestly, the only thing I’ve heard from our users is that the admin interface looks to basic. I rather see that as a good thing. It’s clean and easy to understand.
Reason for choosing Payload
Prismic didn’t offer good functionally to generate localised paths needed for nextjs dynamic pages. Strapi made custom blocks and relations within far more difficult than necessary.
Reasons for switching to Payload
We are currently rewriting our Wordpress site to run on NextJS and payload as a cms.
